Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRussia’s Earthquake, Wonders of Walking and Surprising Plant Genetics
Host Rachel Feltman talks with Andrea Thompson, Scientific American’s senior sustainability editor, to discuss the massive Russian earthquake and the…
7 months ago
Is AI Conscious? Claude 4 Raises the Question
Host Rachel Feltman talks with Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American’s senior tech reporter, about his recent exchange with Claude 4, an artificial…
7 months, 1 week ago
Your Guide to Summer’s Extreme Weather, from Corn Sweat to Flash Floods
The summer of 2025 has been a doozy in the U.S., with extreme weather across the country. Flash flooding caused destruction and death in Texas. Corn …
7 months, 1 week ago
Summer Meteor Showers, Short Summer Days and Ancient Arthropods
If last Tuesday seemed to fly by, you can blame the rotation of Earth. Try to look up this week to see the Southern Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Cap…
7 months, 1 week ago
Greenland’s Ice Sheet Is at Risk—And So Are We
Chief multimedia editor Jeffery DelViscio ventured to Greenland for a month to learn from the scientists studying the country’s ice sheet. He speaks …
7 months, 1 week ago
What to Read on the Beach This Summer
Scientific American has been reading, reviewing and recommending books for more than 100 years. These days Brianne Kane, our resident reader, is in c…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Time Travel to Tide Pool 101 from Our July 1925 Issue
Time travel to an introduction to tide pools, the start of commercial air travel and an intercontinental aviation museum dispute. Host Rachel Feltman…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Dungeons and Dragons’ Popularity Grows—And Science Follows
Brennan Lee Mulligan is a professional dungeon master, playing Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), a popular tabletop role-playing game, for audiences online…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The LIGO Lab Is Pushing the Boundaries of Gravitational-Wave Research
Come with Science Quickly on a field trip to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Tec…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
This Surgery Can Lead to Weight Loss—But Stigma Is Harder to Shake Off
Each year more than half a million people undergo bariatric surgery, a procedure geared toward weight loss. But research shows that stigma around wei…
7 months, 3 weeks ago